by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Georgia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Forestry is the 189th most popular major in the country with 2,233 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,829 and had an average of $21,444 in loans still to pay off.
Across Georgia, there were 136 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,895 and $22,363 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Georgia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in forestry. That schools that top this list have a program in forestry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Georgia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Georgia”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Georgia list. ABAC Tifton is a public institution located in Tifton, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forestry Major in Georgia list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s forestry degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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